dimland radio 1-5-19 show notes

Let's Check In On This...

 

It's not getting any funnier.

No, I'm not recycling a old blog. This is starting the same way as last week's because I decided to keep an eye on how well this, what looks like a piece of crap, is doing.

 

As of this writing, the movie has grossed worldwide $35.5 million. It cost an estimated $42 million to make. Hey, this misfire will probably make its money back! Can we hope for a sequel?

What Better Way To Start The New Year?

It was 5:30am on New Year's Day when I got the call from my dad. Mom had run out of a pain medicine she was taking (she wasn't following  the prescription and was taking an extra now and again) and she began to have withdrawal problems. Dad and I took her to the ER.

 

It was a short visit and Mom got set back on track with her medication. She's learned a valuable lesson. I hope.

 

Lowering Expectations?

I received an official Minnesota Vikings desktop calendar as part of our family's tradition of a dice game gift exchange. The calendar is 365 days of facts and trivia. Below is from January 1st:

 

 

Starting the year focusing on mediocrity. How Minnesota Vikings.

 

A Dimland Radio ARGH!: Is New York City Trying To Get Everyone To Hate It?

 

The TV tradition in America is to show the ball drop in New York's Times Square "live" as the new year comes in. The shows that broadcast TV offers (Fox and ABC) were the ones we looked at. We decided to stay with Fox. Neither offer us anything we really like, we just tuned in for the ball drop.

 

So, it dropped, "Happy New Year!" Then people start making out. Yuck. And our ears are graced with with the traditional singing of Auld Lang... Not so fast!

 

Nope. What song was played?

 

New York, New York!

 

ARGH!
Except, when preparing these show notes, I looked for video to back up my point. I found video of the moment. And I found that Auld Lang Syne was indeed played immediately after the new year came in. It was greatly truncated. But it played.

I'm still aggravated by the insertion of New York, New York. It interrupted the traditional song. Is there something wrong with letting the song play out, New York?

And I'm aggravated because I'll have to admit I was wrong on next week's show.

 

A Dimland Radio Pedantic Moment: It's An Initialism, Smarty-pants!

Inspired by one of this week's Three Cool Things is a Pedantic Moment I had while watching a very funny clip from the UK's That Mitchell And Webb Look. It's a sketch comedy show that, from what I've seen of it, is awfully funny.

 

The sketch is called Grammar Nazi (at least on YouTube, it is) and it features a boss doling out swift retribution on his employees' errors in grammar. Except before he hands out his first harsh reaction, he makes a grammar error. He calls the abbreviation HHH an acronym. It's not. It's an initialism.

 

 

An acronym is an abbreviation of a multi-word title using the initials of each word in the title to spell out another word. For example: SCUBA or SNAFU. An intitialism follows the same setup, but the letters do not spell out a word. For example: FBI or KGB.

 

Some Grammar Nazi!

Three Cool Things

1) This cool thing is about my love of the British panel/game show. Not exactly a game show, but not the traditional panel show either. There's QI, Would I Lie To You?, 8 Out of 10 Cats, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, and a few others. My favorite of the shows is QI and my favorite of the panel guests is Dave Mitchell.

2) China just landed a probe on the far side of the moon. Sure, it could be a Communist invasion, but it's very cool!

 

Bonus Cool Thing: It's never cool when someone does, but a freaky coincidence can be damn cool. Mean Gene Okerlund, Daryl "The Captain" Dragon, and Bob "Super Dave Osborne" Einstein all died on January 2nd. I know that's three, but don't start with the celebrities dies in threes nonsense. Sometimes they happen to cluster into a set of three.

Anyway, the freaky coincidence with these three deaths is that they were all 76 years old when they died.

 

3) The New Horizons spacecraft has past Ultima Thule and sent pictures. Damn! That's cool! Science! YEAH!

Music heard on the show...

Dimland Radio opening theme song: 'Ram' by The Yoleus 
First ad break bumpers: 'Only You' by Yaz & '(The) Unguarded Moment' by The Church

Second ad break bumpers: 'Time The Avenger' by Pretenders & 'Here It Is Tomorrow' by Game Theory

Closing song: 'Angler's Treble Hook' by $5 Fiddle

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dimland radio 1-13-18 show notes

Casey At The Bat

Longtime listeners know I can't go very many shows with talking about The Who. And it's been a whole week.

I was invited to help some folks out in a round of that bar trivia thing. The featured topic was going to be the world's greatest rock band: Nickelback. No, wait. What am I saying?!

Of course, it was The Who and I was brought in as a ringer. But, would I turn out to be mighty Casey and strike out? Would there be joy in Mudville? 

Roseanne Will Be A Trump Supporter

The return of the hit sitcom Roseanne is already raising some eyebrows. Its controversial star has stated that the title character will be a Trump supporter. She feels it would be "realistic" because the series is about a blue collar family and plenty of blue collar folks voted for Trump.

I speculated that perhaps Roseanne Barr might be trying to show blue collar viewers that it would be OK to admit they'd made a mistake, if her character came to realize that through the course of the series.

I'll never know. I didn't watch the show when it aired in the late 80s into the 90s and I don't intend to watch it when it returns.

This article gives more info and also notes that Barr herself had been a supporter of Trump. 

Pedantic Moment: The Shawshank Redemption

 
I warned about spoilers before I got into what I'm pedantic about when it comes to the great, great movie: The Shawshank Redemption.

What was I pedantic about? You'll have to listen. Here's a hint. It has to do with a poster and a plastic bundle.

By the way, I kept calling Morgan Freeman, Martin Freeman. I have a drug problem. 

Dimland Radio Science Zero: Charlie Daniels

  

Well, country music star, Charlie Daniels, stopped singing about the devil going to Georgia to make deals for souls long enough to warn Taco Bell about their latest ad campaign. Taco Bell is airing TV ads with a conspiracy theory theme. Mr. Daniels thinks that's a bad idea.

The internet had a little fun with him. And I named him a Dimland Radio Science Zero.

Dimland Radio Science Hero: David Mitchell & Robert Webb

  

I've know about these two British actors. They had a BBC2 show called 'That Mitchell And Webb Look'. It's a sketch comedy show featuring some excellent satire. They send up the Princess Diana death conspiracy, the moon landing hoax, aliens, and homeopathy.

For those excellent send-ups, they are Dimland Radio Science Heroes. 

This Is Pretty Clever

 
I got a laugh from this the other day. You might as well.

My Sports Prediction

 
When it comes to the MN Vikings my rational thoughts go right out the window. 40 plus years of watching the Vikes come up short, especially when some of those years the team was so damn good. Vikes fans are a little wary. And I'm very wary.

With that wariness in mind, I made my prediction about how the Vikings will do this postseason.

Top Three Cool Things Of The Week

Here are the Top Three Cool Things from this week.

3) Despite my wariness, the MN Vikings being in the playoffs is pretty cool.

2) I made to the MN Skeptics Meet-Up on Thursday despite my doubts earlier in the day of being able to make it. But I did make it.

1) My son has three photograph in an art exhibit at a local college. The exhibit is for area high schools with outstanding art programs. My boy got an Honorable Mention. His photographs in the exhibit can be seen just below this sentence.

Movie Recommendation: The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

 

I've recommended this before, but since it's part of my Pedantic Moment this week, why not recommend it again? Besides, it's a modern classic.

Music heard on the show...

Dimland Radio opening theme song: 'Ram' by The Yoleus 
First ad break bumpers: 'Scarecrow People' by XTC & 'Warm Leatherette' byThe Normal

Second ad break bumpers: I forgot to take my second break. What's the deal? Well, there is that drug problem.

Closing song: 'Angler's Treble Hook' by $5 Fiddle

That's it! See you next Saturday night for Dimland Radio 11 Central, midnight Eastern on www.ztalkradio.com you can also download my show from the z talk show archives page. You can email your questions and comments to drdim@dimland.com

Please subscribe on iTunes! Just search for Dimland Radio in the podcast section. And if you could leave a good rating and a positive review it would be awesome.

You can also go to my CafePress store and buy stuff with my artwork on it and have me do a portrait for you if you like. Find out more here and here.